I came across this interesting thread/post. https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/the-lye-concentration-experiment.61769/#post-622744
Have there been any great SMF experiments comparing transparency for the same recipe using low versus high lye concentration?
ETA a better term would be “translucency”. I realize that there are ways to make transparent soaps based on different methods/ingredients from those normally used to make cp soap. I had been assuming that soaps looked more translucent when the CO was high, but in the linked thread, the OP seems to be suggesting that crystallization of high water soaps may be more complete or more ordered compared with low water soaps.
Have there been any great SMF experiments comparing transparency for the same recipe using low versus high lye concentration?
ETA a better term would be “translucency”. I realize that there are ways to make transparent soaps based on different methods/ingredients from those normally used to make cp soap. I had been assuming that soaps looked more translucent when the CO was high, but in the linked thread, the OP seems to be suggesting that crystallization of high water soaps may be more complete or more ordered compared with low water soaps.
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